Hiroshige II's series 'The Tōkaidō' (1863)

Introduction

This page attempts to catalog all known prints in
Hiroshige II's
series 'Tōkaidō (東海道 - The
Tōkaidō)' from 1863, the earlier of two identically-named series.

The stage name is at the bottom of the rectangular cartouche in the top
right corner, and the series title is at the top.

The earliest prints in this series date from toward the middle of Hiroshige
II's career, when he was about thirt-seven years old. At this point, he was
still
using the name
'Hiroshige', since his master
Hiroshige I
had died, and Hiroshige II had taken over the
gō
'Hiroshige'.

He did two very similar series of this name, in the vertical
chūban format; the ones in this series can be easily
distinquished because the ones from this series are signed 'Hiroshige'. In
all other respects (title cartouche format, etc), the two series are
identical.

It is certain that they are different series, however: images of the
complete series are available
here,
here,
and
here,
and it can be seen that the images shown here are from this series;
images from the
later series
do not match.

Technical details

Dates: 1863 (Boar - Bunkyū 3), 8th month - 1864, 2nd month

Size: vertical chūban

Signed: Hiroshige

The Prints

To see a larger, roughly full-screen, image of any print, please click on the
thumbnail; these images are sized to produce fine detail, and are only moderately
compressed.

Sometime the
kanji
used in the stage name in the title are not the canonical ones; if so, those
are given in brackets.

Note that there are two Kyōto images (as is sometimes seen in
small-format Tōkaidō series, which are usually printed with more
than one stage per sheet, to make an even number of images).

Images

Number

Date

Title (Kanji)

Title (Romaji)

Comment

#3

川崎

Kawasaki

#4

1863/8

神奈川

Kanagawa

#5

程ヶ谷

Hodogaya

#6

1863/8

戸塚

Totsuka

#8

平塚

Hiratsuka

#11

1863/8

箱根

Hakone

#12

三嶋

Mishima

#15

1863/9

吉原

Yoshiwara

#16

蒲原

Kambara

#17

由井

Yui

#18

奥津 (興津)

Okitsu

#19

1863/9

江尻

Ejiri

#20

府中

Fuchū

#21

1864/2

丸子(鞠子)

Mariko

#22

1864/2

岡部

Okabe

#23

1864/2

藤枝

Fujieda

#24

1864/2

島田(嶋田)

Shimada

#25

金谷

Kanaya

#26

1863/10

日坂 (新阪)

Nissaka

#27

掛川

Kakegawa

#28

1863/10

袋井

Fukuroi

#29

見附

Mitsuke

Although this print is not signed, to confirm which Tōkaidō set
it belongs to, the
image of the complete set
shows that this print is from this series.

#30

1863/10

濵松

Hamamatsu

#31

1864/2

舞坂 (舞阪)

Maisaka

#32

1864/2

荒井

Arai

#33

1864/7

白須賀

Shirasuka

#34

1864/7

二川

Futugawa

#36

御油

Goyu

#37

1864/2

赤坂 (赤阪)

Akasaka

#38

1864/2

藤川

Fujikawa

#43

1864/2

桑名

Kuwana

#44

四日市

Yokkaichi

#47

1864/2

亀山

Kameyama

#48

1864/2

關 (関)

Seki

#49

1863/8

坂丿下(阪の下)

Sakanoshita

#50

圡山(土山)

Tsuchiyama

#51

水口

Minakuchi

#52

石部

Ishibe

#53

草津

Kusatsu

#54

1863/8

大津

Otsu

#55A

京三条

Kyō-Sanjō

This shows the Great Sanjō Bridge (三条 大橋)
in Kyōto; the title is somewhat abbreviated.

#55B

1863/8

京大内

Kyō-dai-uchi

This shows the palace in Kyōto; the title is again somewhat
abbreviated. The
kanji
used for 'palace' are not the usual ones; these mean (literally) 'great
house'.

Acknowledgements
A very big 'Thank you' to the
Museum of Fine Arts,
which provided many of the images used on this page.